Kia Ora, Kamusta, Kia Orana, Hello, Bonjour!
We are a class of 31 students at Poroutawhao School. We have got Year 4, 5, 6 and 7 students in our class. Our class is made up of 18 girls and 13 boys. Our teacher is Miss Salton. Poroutawhao is a rural school half way between Levin and Foxton, at the bottom of the North Island.
Our School has values which we call the 4 C’s – Communication, Creativity, Consideration and Collaboration. If we display these values we get a click on our cards, when we get 10 clicks we go in the draw for a prize. At the end of each term, we have a 4C’s celebration day where things range from wheels day, movies day or water day!
In our class, we also get dojo points which Miss Salton uses to give us clicks and we have our own class draw at the end of the week.
Our Student Leaders also give out an environment award weekly, if you are the tidiest class outside. We won this most times in Term 1 and ended up with a pizza lunch!
At our school, we have skateboards available for us to use every Friday during our break times. We had some skateboarding lessons at the beginning of the year to help us build confidence.
We are able to do a range of activities at school too like: Mau Rākau, Rippa Rugby, Boxing, Swimming (we have our own pool, and also go to the town pool for some expert lessons), Hockey (we have our own turf!) and Epic Music Lessons.
In class, we do most of our learning on chromebooks and use hāpara for most of our work as well as lots of other learning apps like: prodigy, dreamscape, epic, spellie, studyladder, steps, mathsframe and typing club.
This year, we have started Structured Literacy for our spelling, reading and writing. Our inquiry topic this term is ‘You’re History’ where we have been allowed to choose anything from history to learn about. We have things such as: Dinosaurs, Titanic, Historical Figures and History of Sports.
Later in the year, we will have our annual Ag Day, where some of us will bring in lambs, calves, chickens or our pets!
Thank you for coming to read our page, please feel free to ask us anything and we’ll try our best to answer!